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Space Wars 3D Star Combat Simulator: FREE THE GALAXY! – Casual Game Review
Space Wars 3D Star Combat Simulator: FREE THE GALAXY! is a Casual/Entertainment/Simulation game from Useless Creations Pty Ltd, first launched in 2nd April 2012.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 283+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Space Wars 3D Star Combat Simulator: FREE THE GALAXY! Stand Out
(Note: In-App purchases are available to help you progress faster, but are not required to play the game in full!)
JOIN THE SPACE WARS!!
By popular demand we've made the game much easier! And you can now select your own difficulty level. If you were stuck before, try again now!
Another big update for you!!
v3 changes:
- New updated graphics including COCKPITS for each star fighter!
- Another new star fighter: Taipan Stealth, the smallest fighter with an auto-turret!
- New explosions! New galaxy map!
- More difficulty tweaks: choose Easy, Medium or Hard level.
- By popular demand: You now earn 20% more credits per kill.
- VIP Discount is now 40% (up from 20%!).
- Many more small fixes / tweaks.
KEEP YOUR FEEDBACK COMING! Email us from www.UselessiPhoneStuff.com! We listen!
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Prepare to climb into the cockpit of a star fighter and free the galaxy with the Space Wars 3D Star Combat Simulator!
More than just a basic space shooter, Space Wars is a 3D space simulator for budding star pilots everywhere! Choose your ship, install your upgrades, and prepare to take on the alien menace!
Features:
- Addictive, fun, yet challenging game play. Play for 5 minutes, or 5 hours! Hours of star dogfights await you!
- Highly detailed real time 3D graphics that make use of the Retina display on both iPhone and the new iPad.
- Many different ships to fly, and destroy!
- Watch ships randomly fly apart as you blow them from the stars!
- Dynamic 3D sound, so you can hear what's coming and where.
- As you complete missions, you earn credits that can be used to unlock new ships, or install upgrades on your ships, including a Cloaking device, missiles and much much more!
- Each sector of space has a beautifully designed background, with dynamic 3D lighting. So the action is lit differently depending on what stars are in the area.
- Simple pick-up-and-play controls. Left thumb steers, right thumb shoots! Take some time to practice and you'll soon get the hang of it! Read the detailed tutorial for more info on the finer points of flying your space fighter!
- TILT CONTROLS are also available!
- Choose your own path to victory. Will you take an easier route and earn less credits? Or the difficult route and get the best ship ASAP? Or both?
- Climb up through the ranks of the Human Space Navy. Can you be the first Space Warlord on your block?
- Choose your strategy! Will you upgrade each ship as you go, or try to hold out and save your credits for the best ship you can get?
- Stuck on a mission? You can call for reinforcements!
- GameCenter achievements and leader boards. Can you be the Richest Pilot? Or the Deadliest?
- Clock mode which lets you watch all the action without the risk of getting space sick!
- COMPLETELY FREE TO PLAY!!
- and much more!
We want your feedback! We may not have access to read the App Store feedback in your country, which means we may never see your ideas! Email us directly from the website so we can respond:
www.UselessiPhoneStuff.com
See SPACE WARS in action here: http://youtu.be/jGT4I3Smo5c
This Casual game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Space Wars 3D Star Combat Simulator: FREE THE GALAXY! is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 17th December 2015
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
** v3 changes:
New updated graphics including COCKPITS for each star fighter!
Another new star fighter: Taipan Stealth, the smallest fighter with an auto-turret!
New explosions! New galaxy map!
More difficulty tweaks: choose Easy, Medium or Hard level.
Download & Availability
Space Wars 3D Star Combat Simulator: FREE THE GALAXY! is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Space Wars 3D Star Combat Simulator: FREE THE GALAXY! on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love this game, we really think it deserves a revamp, but the devs haven't made anything after 9 years sadly, we hope someone remakes this game, this… Has great potential.
This is the best Star Wars game EVER MADE in the history of EEEVER.
We personally have all fighters but we use the weakest one to make fights longer, Im on the fourth galaxy and a space warlord so the fights are exceedingly long when using the default. Its just a great game to play.
We played this game when it was last updated and we still have the skill we had.
This is the best game about space Ive ever played.no,really! Except,we have 2 things: Why are there aliens attacking HUMAN space? And thing 2: WHY IS THERE NO SEQUEL!?!?! We mean, come on! This is a good game! Make a sequel already! This is a absolutely stupendously, stunningly ASTONISHING and GREAT game.
It is awesome it is amazing we played and it felt like BattleStar Galatica The graphics were awesome the special effects were awesome! We recomend this game.
Galiga meets Star trek meets star wars meets sTar sHip tRoopers! With nasa 3D art thrown in!!! Its a mix of all that yet still stays unique to its ship designs and weapons combo lasers/ missiles. Space Wars is the name and Galactic Domination is the game! It leaves you at guessing who youre pushing out of the galaxy?? Space Wars is a Flight simulator style shoot em up with lazers game. With octagonal style targeting similar to some air force based piloting sims. It never gets old with a variety of different ships to unlock and choose from. And no its not easy to get all of them unlocked, especially on the hardest difficulty . Yet im a daredevil we loved the Halo game (Combat Evolved) and this is right on par with that kind of game as far as difficulty goes. So its safe to say you get your bang for your,, oh wait did we mention its FREE.
The game is amazing and has some real potential. You have the building blocks for some really amazing gameplay. We could see this being like og battlefront space battles. One small problem though, this game has not been updated in 2 years. So yeah, great game, but desperately needs an update.
Its star war da da dadada da da dadada da da dadadada.
We were looking for something at least similar to Star Wars, and this app was almost exactly what we had in mind.
This is no trick it is amazing and we would never delete it. Just like Star Wars too.
This is now our new favorite Mobile Game.we love the thought of intersellar space travel and space combat and this brings to all to iOS and mobile YASS we GIVE IT 5 STARS.
This game is so cool! It's hard at first, but u get used 2 it. The controls r rlly ez 2 use It's just like Star Wars but with different ships. Beware the ones that look like vulture droids! We would also advise to invade only the spaces closest to ur base where it is easier we just can't stop playing! The only thing we would change is that the cockpit controls wouldn't have a mirror effect, but they r only decorations, so it doesn't matter. The perfect flight simulator for young pilots.
We got this game originally because we finished galaxy on fire to play another sci-fy game but when we started playing it, we instantly thought it was amazing. It combine our love for retro Visio games and sci-fy to make the best game ever! GET THIS GAME NOW, ITS AWESOME!! (ps. This is not a sponsor we just really love the game).
You guys need to add multiplayer so people can fight with the fighters the have in single player.
Amazing game!! We got addicted to it! Solid graphics, cool controls, amazing landscapes, this is what we've been looking for.
We got this game like 2 years ago, played so many levels. This game deserves so much more love and support then it has. We spent $1.99 on this game and it changed the whole game. We played this on road trips for hours, you can too.
This is a rlly great game!!!! Kudos to the creators. Love the graphics and the gameplay. And if an advertisement pops up when u open the game, just press "sound on" rlly quickly before the advertisement makes ur game crash. Though, the game needs an update, like a multiplayer battle mode.
The graphics are beautiful, the game is awesome, and we've been playing for four hours.
Honestly, the fact that your all has such low ratings is just because all of those people encountered small bugs and they didn't judge the game based off of gameplay. This game is incredibly fun and addicting, and we remember playing and enjoying the earlier version of the game and we are glad you put all of the hard work into this update/edit (because programming is really not as easy as people think).
A great simple game perfect for what it is. For a space fighter simulator you don't need anything else.
Reminds us of XWing. Ah the good old days.
This game is very simple but very enjoyable. We've spent hours on this simple little game and it's a great time killer. We'd only recommend fixing the cockpit labels and the then it would be perfect.
We tried fighting ships and it is so hard and other ships that are on our side are so much cash.
We really like this game, but there are a few tweaks that are needed. First, there needs to be ships added. Secondly, there needs to be more variety of upgrades available. Lastly, there should be more than one galaxy, so you can conquer more space. But great game.
It's a pretty good FPS game for a free mobile game. Steering feels nice and responsive and the shooting is too. We would like more things happening in the background, like huge capital ships firing at each-other while smaller star fighters are ducking it out. Still pretty good.
This game is good but it would be great if you changed the sound of the shooting!it sounds like an old Atari game!the graphics and game play are very good and the sound effects should be also,if you fix then Ill rate 5 stars.
The campaign is very long lasting, there are about 60 areas and depending on how good you are at the game (or how deep your wallet is in the game or in real life) it takes 2-5 minutes to conquer an area and on the low end its two hours straight to win, you do the math for the high end we have currently won 5 campaigns, we have a long subway ride to work and it doesnt have the best WiFi.
This game is really good it is just in need of an update. We wish that it felt like you moving more and that there was a way to make more space for upgrades. Other than those two things, great game should definitely try it.
Fun game for a while, good graphic, good control. Needs more content.
Star Trek and Star Wars have mixed together!? ONE THING we WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE THE SLOW SPEED MAKE OUR SHIPS GO A BIT FASTER.
The game is junk. Every time we went to play it would stop and not go any further also no matter which we hold our phone it's sluggish on making it should go to a full screen instead of a small one. On the problem to get pass where it stopped we have to delete it from our phone and reinstall. This the last time we do it.please fix the screen to a full and fix the program so after you are done with setting you can finally enjoy the game. Looking over other same problem as no.19 it freeze it's a good game but would be better with a full screen setting and get game to stop freezing. Then we'll remove junk review and title.
Was cool but the last update killed all the sound on both iPhone and iPad. And support ignores the emails.
The controls don't work. Steer right to aim left? Why are the cockpit labels backward. Was there any beta testing on this at all.
Well first of all the graphics are awful and when we tilt left we turn right and vice versa and just over all is a terrible game.
We followed everything your tutorial want us to do and we treating us like us we followed everything your tutorial want us to do and we treating us like Im nothing.
We hate it there is no but it is just not fun.
We dont realize why all the people playing this game give it five stars. The graphics where no good it just appeared as if you were not moving at all and the alien ships were coming towards you instead you moving towards them. The cash is too easy to get because the alien ships dont fight back like an actual ship. If you are looking for a space game to play try something else, this is not a five star game.
This simulator keeps crashing on the main menu. It does not work.
Alright so we open the game what happens next is riveting it freezes.
Terrible. Works great first one or two times but once you close it a few times then open it, a Doctor Who ad pops up, and it crashes. Do not buy full version!!! Waste of money.
It's just a knockoff of Star Wars, the company name says it all.
This is by far the coolest game we've ever played! BUT, yes there's a but, we wish there was music while ur fighting and we also wish that there was a thing that told you how many enemy ships there are. Other than that, awesome.
Great graphics, depicting realistic delay from a plasma round being discharged your spacecraft to hitting the enemies, debris from eliminated spacecraft, and accurate radar. We also like that you command the grand strategy of the war against the aliens while also fighting in each individual battle. Fantastic game.
Great game for being free! It would be cool for a future update where you can be different clans instead of just humans such as the aliens. New ships with each clan would be really cool too keep up the good work.
This game is a lot better than expected … We downloaded it thinking it said star wars combat sim, but it wasn't. So, we gave it a try and it was really fun it runs great on both our iPod 4 and iPad 1 (both old) and provides a difficult but entertaining gameplay on the higher levels … In the end it is a free app definitely worth downloading and playing.
This app is amazing!!! We highly recommend it.
Never had any problems with it, try it before you rule it out.
It is great, but some minor adjustments would make it better. 1) Add a distance measure (in kilometers) under the enemy icon. 2) Add blue icons to enemy ships, and green icons to ones you've locked onto. Add a display item showing your weapons range. 3) Make the weapons plazma-based! 4) Add missions, instead of just having you fly around and shoot the enemy down. Add a more complex storyline. 5) Add ships like frigates and cruisers that have turrets that can be targeted, but also allow the ship itself to be destroyed. 6) Make the allied forces stronger. They die way too easily.
This game surprised us with its complexity. It is a bit hard to understand the zero gravity war at first but fun to kill all the aliens and claim back your land from their grubby claws!!GO FORTH AND JOIN YOUR FELLOW SOLDIERS IN THE WAR ACROSS THE STARS! Plus the ships are cool.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.0
- Size: 95.30 MB
- iOS: 7.1 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [Useless Creations Pty Ltd]()
Last updated: 17th December 2015 | Genre: Casual, Entertainment | Developer: Useless Creations Pty Ltd